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COLUMBIA — More Jasper County residents are sleep deprived than in the state as a whole. They also have a smaller median income.
But on the upside, Jasper has the least residential racial segregation of any of South Carolina’s 46 counties.
Those are a few of the results of the 2016 County Health Rankings, released by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute.

PHOENIX — Protesters blocked a main highway leading into the Phoenix suburb where Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump staged a campaign rally Saturday alongside Arizona’s contentious sheriff, Joe Arpaio.

MOSCOW — Winds were gusting before dawn Saturday over the airport in the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don when a plane carrying 62 people from a favorite Russian holiday destination decided to abort its landing.

Savannah’s newly elected city administration has made some important moves over the last couple of months.
But the public anger that resulted in the election of Mayor Eddie DeLoach and three new aldermen – Bill Durrence, Brian Foster and Julian Miller – was primarily the result of deteriorating public safety in 2015.

PHOENIX (AP) — Protesters blocked a main highway leading into the Phoenix suburb Saturday where Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump was preparing to hold a campaign rally alongside Arizona's revered Sheriff Joe Arpaio.

SAN DIEGO (AP) — It sounds like a pitch for a far-fetched movie: "Cast Away," but with a dog instead of Tom Hanks. Only this sea tale is true.A California fisherman's beloved German shepherd fell overboard and was presumed drowned. More than a month later, she was found.